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Long-form philosophy content for late-night listening and deep focus. We cover the big thinkers - from the Stoics and Aristotle to Camus, Nietzsche, and Dostoevsky - explained in a calm, steady voice that keeps things interesting without being overstimulating. If you want something substantial to think about during quiet hours, or just appreciate philosophy delivered at a relaxed pace, this is for you.
slphilosophy hosts Sleepy Philosophy Radio, a society show with 58 episodes published.
Fall asleep to the story of Ernest Becker, who traced all human striving back to the fear of death. In a hospital bed on the Canadian coast, a dying man agreed to be recorded talking about death, the subject he had spent
Fall asleep to the story of literature's first anti-hero, the sick and spiteful man who spoke the modern mind's secret. In the winter of a year that would take almost everyone he loved, a broke and grieving writer set lo
An Irish boy left the priesthood, crossed an ocean, and built a new faith out of the human mind. This is the story of Joseph Murphy, the Irish-born minister whose single book on the subconscious mind has sold in the mill
Fall asleep to Homer's Odyssey, a voyage through mortality, memory, identity, and the difficult meaning of home. Beginning with a man who refuses immortality, then entering the mystery of Homer and the firelit halls wher
Why do people who have everything still wake at three in the morning certain that none of it means anything? This is a long, unhurried history of the moment the floor of ordinary life gives way. It begins with a celebrat
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The oldest, strangest verdict in philosophy, that it might be better never to have been born. Long before the word existed, the wisest voices of the ancient world kept arriving at the same strange verdict, that it might
A boy told he would die by thirty built a philosophy of openness that outlived two death sentences. Karl Jaspers trained as a doctor under the shadow of an early death, reinvented the study of the troubled mind, and then
Around 600 BCE, on the island of Samos , a man declared something that sounded almost absurd: that everything in the universe, every object, every force, every living creature, is ultimately a number. Not described by nu
He wrote the book that built the modern world, then spent his last days making sure most of the rest was burned. Adam Smith was the gentle, absent-minded son of a Scottish customs official, and he became the most misread
She died unknown, leaving eighteen hundred poems in a locked box. This is the mind that hid them. In May of 1886, a woman almost nobody knew died in a brick house in Amherst, Massachusetts, and her sister found a locked
An innocent man, a burned fawn, and the hardest question ever asked of God. This episode follows the problem of evil from its oldest telling to its newest defenses. It begins with a man who loses everything in a single a
She answered terror with a poem too dangerous to write down, and the poem outlived the state that banned it. This episode follows Anna Akhmatova from a childhood in Pushkin's town outside Petersburg, through the cellar c
The richest heir in Vienna gave everything away and kept only the hardest questions ever asked about language. Ludwig Wittgenstein was born into one of the wealthiest families in Europe and died telling his friends he ha
Vote on what comes next: https://www.sleepyphilosophyradio.com/vote The real danger was never the boot on the face. In this episode, we trace the full arc of Huxley's life and thought, beginning with the prophecy he deli
Vote on what comes next: https://www.sleepyphilosophyradio.com/vote The man who proved that nature does not abhor a vacuum, and then wrote the most honest account ever given of why the universe terrifies us. Fall asleep
Vote on what comes next: https://www.sleepyphilosophyradio.com/vote Fall asleep to the complete philosophy of Emil Cioran. Some nights the thought you cannot chase away is the one you most need a voice to name. Emil Cior
In the winter of eighteen forty-seven, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were commissioned by a small revolutionary organization to write a statement of communist principles. What they produced in a matter of weeks was some
Vote on what comes next: https://www.sleepyphilosophyradio.com/vote The world does not reward good intentions. Fall asleep to the complete philosophy of Niccolo Machiavelli. In this episode, we trace the full arc of Mach
Vote on what comes next: https://www.sleepyphilosophyradio.com/vote Somewhere in an infinite library, there is a book that contains the date of your death. Tonight, fall asleep to the complete philosophy of Jorge Luis Bo
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Sleepy Philosophy Radio is hosted by slphilosophy. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 58 episodes.
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